White blue-columbian

Color and pattern male

Head: white.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide bright-blue black shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow silver-white lace running around the tip; front of the neck white.

Back and shoulders: white, below the neck-hackle bright-blue and white.

Saddle-hackle: white or white with bright-blue shaft-stripes, similar to the neck-hackle, extending from the tip of the feather no more than halfway down.

Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue; support-feathers bright-blue with white lacing; sickles and coverts bright-blue; smaller-coverts with narrow silver-white lacing.

Wings: bow white, may be partly bright-blue; wing-arch and wing-bar white.

Primary-flights: bright-blue with white lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane bright-blue with white lace running around the tip; outer-vane white, forming a complete white wing when it is closed.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane bright-bluek with white lace that runs around the tip; outer-vane white, forming a complete white wing when it is closed.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly and rear-part: white.

Down: light blue-grey.

Serious faults

Insufficient or broken shaft-stripes in the neck-hackle. White in the sickles. Strong presence of black in areas that should be white. Strong yellow tint in the ornamental feathers.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree. Insufficient pattern on tail support-feathers and wing-flights. Presence of entirely black or partially black feather parts within blue and a much too dark- or much too light blue color.

Color and pattern female

Head: white.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide bright-blue shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow silver-white lace running around the tip; front of the neck white.

Neck: each hackle-feather with a medium-wide green-glossy black shaft-stripe, surrounded by a narrow silver-white lace running around the tip; front of the neck white.

Back and shoulders: white, below the neck-hackle bright-blue and white.

Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue, except for the top two feathers, which are faintly white-laced; coverts bright-blue with narrow white lace.

Wings: bow and coverts white.

Primary-flights: bright-blue with white lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane black with white lace running around the tip; outer-vane white, forming a complete white wing when it is closed.

Breast, flanks, thighs, belly, and rear-par: white.

Down: light blue-grey.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. Broad and indistinct white lace tail-coverts. Strong presence of bright-blue in areas that should be white on the surface, such as wing-coverts, breast and the body. Broken shaft-stripes.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail-coverts and wing-flights. Presence of entirely black or partially black feather parts in blue. Much too dark- or much too light-blue color.